All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1074
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Opening doors
HÜBNER will be presenting its Varido-Rail G3 door drive. Lightweight construction and refinement of the design has produced a compact drive which is 20% lighter than comparable systems. Mechanical coupling simultaneously reduces the door closing speed and increases the closing force, making the doors easier to maintain.The company will also ...
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OSE DMUs enter service
JULY 27 saw the entry into revenue service of the first of 15 Class 621 two-car DMUs being delivered to Greek railway operator OSE.Ordered in 1997 from a consortium of Hellenic Shipyards and Bombardier, the 125 km/h sets were originally intended to be delivered in time for the Athens Olympic ...
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Relay display
FRIEDRICH Lütze will be showing safety relay modules for DIN-rail mounting.The relays are suitable for safety-critical applications, including couplers, door controls, braking, driver safety devices and ATP functions. Available in all common voltages from 24 to 100V DC, they can be supplied with two to eight sets of contacts, positively-driven ...
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Dieter
A nine-coach Virgin Trains Pendolino train has received an all-over advertising livery to promote the Warner Bros Pictures film Superman Returns. The vinyls supplied by Halo Rail combine marketing images and slogans from the film and the train operator, the wording conceding the train is only ’almost faster than a ...
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Hybrid wheelset cuts weight and noise
The EU-funded Hiperwheel research project explored the structural and fatigue life of wheelsets and developed a prototype composite design that offers a 25% weight saving and a reduction in radiated noise of around 6 dB(A)
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Funding cutbacks threaten German regional revival
The 1994 reform of German Railway transferred responsibility for local and regional rail services from the federal government to the Länder. Traffic blossomed as investment flowed into new trains and better services, but Ralf Roman Rossberg reports that a financial axe threatens to undermine the success of the last 10 ...
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St Louis Cross-County line opens
AUGUST 26 was due to see the formal opening of the 12·9 km Cross-County light rail line in St Louis, with Metro President Larry Salci and other VIPs joining a festival near Shrewsbury station. This was to be followed by two days of free rides before the start of revenue ...
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Eurotunnel wins protection from its creditors
HAVINGPOSTPONED a decision expected on July 25, the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris finally agreed on August 2 to grant Eurotunnel’s request made on July 11 for protection from holders of debt with a face value of £6·2bn. The Group, including 17 related entities, is now barred from paying interest ...
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Los Teques on course for October start
DURING a worksite visit on August 14, Venezuela’s Minister of Infrastructure José David Cabello Rondón confirmed that Metro Los Teques from Las Adjuntas to El Tambor (MR 05 p28) was on course to open on October 22, and that the route would be extended to the centre of Los Teques. ...
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Slowdown will be counter-productive
THE Ministry of Transportation in Jerusalem has instructed Israel Railways to reduce the maximum speed on the national network from 140 km/h to 120 km/h and on some lines to 105 km/h.The ruling has nothing to do with the unscheduled arrival of Hizbollah rockets on ISR tracks but stems from ...
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Madrid - Córdoba tendering
TENDERS have been called within a budget of €114m for a contract to upgrade the 46·7 km section of the Madrid - Córdoba main line between Alc
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Onboard friction control cuts noise and vibration
Bogie performance through curves can be improved by careful control of the friction between wheel and rail. A group of Japanese engineers has developed a friction control method for the Tokyo Metro using an onboard rail spray to control the friction coefficient and the friction characteristics of the wheel-rail contact ...
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Hudson tunnel contract goes to joint venture
MEETING ON August 1, the New Jersey Transit board awarded an $82·5m contract to a joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff, STV and DMJM Harris/AECOM for preliminary engineering work on the Trans-Hudson Express tunnel. Over the next 18 months the consultants will look at tunnelling techniques, construction staging, property acquisition and ...
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Suspension components
TRELLEBORG Industrial will be showing a comprehensive range of rail suspension components and rubber-metal bonding technology in Berlin. The company’s stand will highlight hourglass and air springs for secondary suspension, and chevrons and Metacones for the primary suspension. A representative selection of bogie components including traction control links, traction links, ...
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Four-tracking nears completion
BELGIAN infrastructure authority Infrabel expects to put into operation the four-tracking between Leuven and Schaarbeek, with the December 10 timetable change, enabling SNCB to introduce a second hourly inter-city service linking Brussels and Liège in 51min. Opening of the Leuvenboog chord from the same date will permit direct trains from ...
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Namibia completes Northern extension
THOUSANDS OF Namibians gathered at Ondangwa on July 15 when President Hifikepunye Pohamba and Founding Father Dr Sam Mujoma officially opened the town’s new station, marking the completion of Phase 1 of the country’s northern extension railway. The 246·5 km line from Tsumeb has taken four years to build at ...
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Obasanjo commits to regauging plan
’NO NATION has achieved holistic development without a coherent, integrated, efficient and reliable transportation system’, explained Nigerian President Olusegum Obasanjo on August 9, setting out his vision for the revitalisation of his country’s 3500 km rail network in a special radio broadcast.The Bureau of Public Enterprises has already commissioned CPCS ...
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Sitting comfortably
GRAMMER will be presenting two new seating ranges at InnoTrans, designed for use on inter-city and regional trains.The modular IC3000 seat for long distance travel allows customers to select from a range of options to specify a seat tailored to their market. The two sizes of table offered include one ...
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Cleaner engine to be launched
CUMMINS will be using InnoTrans to exhibit its Stage 3A/Tier 2 QSK60-L locomotive engine for the first time. Developed for arduous main line freight and passenger loco applications, it has an output range from 1492 to 1940 kW. Available from January 2007, the 60litre engine meets the US Environmental Protection ...
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced on August 1 that the government had approved in principle the construction of three more metro lines in Bangkok. The Red Line will run for 40 km from Phya Thai to Rangsit and Chiang Rak Noi and the 23 km Purple Line will connect ...